Barge was fitted up to resemble the British man- of- war Pandora and was being towed back to Adams cove a the completion of shooting. A blast of wind struck the barge causing twenty-five people to be thrown into the water before it sunk. The assistant camera drown.

This vessel, the property of Wilmington Transportation Company, sank somewhere "between Long Beach...and San Miguel Island..." (MVUS 1936). The date of the loss is July 25, 1935. This is the incident reported as the loss of Wrigley barge no. 3 as while filming scenes for Mutiny on the Bounty off of Point Bennett, San Miguel Island.

"The flat-bottomed vessel was being towed back to anchorage [Adams Cove] after the day's work when it heeled over before a sudden blast of wind." The barge foundered, throwing about seventy-five members of the crew into the water. Glenn Strong, an assistant cameraman, drowned while attempting to retrieve a camera mounted on the vessel's superstructure (Long Beach Press Telegram, 26 and 27 July, 1935). The Coast Guard cutter Hermes responded to scene, arriving early the next morning. Hermes began searching SSE of the initial sinking, omitting routine drills because of "excessive rolling of vessel." The search found only floating debris, some of which washed up on the island.

The sinking of this barge offers an explanation for the sighting of a "Spanish cannon" on the beach by William B. Harper in 1954. The movie set was the deck of HMS Pandora, which featured several muzzle loading cannon. While authentic cannon do not float very well, and are unlikely to wash up on a beach, the same is not true of their movie counterparts, which are often made of wood. The cannon, or prop, has not yet been located. Morris & Lima